Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon
Scholarly Conversations Between Jews, Iranians and Babylonians in Antiquity
Edited by Uri Gabbay Edited by Shai Secunda
Hardback (Published)
(January 2015)
ISBN: 9783161528330
6.3 x 9.45 inches
Price: $329.00
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This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various Mesopotamian connections, often neglected in the study of ancient Judaism, are the focus of this truly interdisciplinary collection.
This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various Mesopotamian connections, often neglected in the study of ancient Judaism, are the focus of this truly interdisciplinary collection.
Uri Gabbay/Shai Secunda: Introduction
Yaakov Elman: Contrasting Intellectual Trajectories: Iran and Israel in Mesopotamia
Society and Its Institutions Ran Zadok: Judeans in Babylonia—Updating the Dossier - Caroline Waerzeggers: Locating Contact in the Babylonian Exile: Some Reflections on Tracing Judean-Babylonian Encounters in Cuneiform Texts - Maria Macuch: Jewish Jurisdiction within the Framework of the Sasanian Legal System
The Transmission of Knowledge Abraham Winitzer: Assyriology and Jewish Studies in Tel Aviv: Ezekiel among the Babylonian literati - Jonathan Ben-Dov: Time and Culture: Mesopotamian Calendars in Jewish Sources from the Bible to the Mishnah - Nathan Wasserman: Old-Babylonian, Middle-Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Jewish-Babylonian? Thoughts about Transmission Modes of Mesopotamian Magic through the Ages - James Nathan Ford: The Ancient Mesopotamian Motif of kidinnu 'divine protection (of temple cities and their citizens)' in Akkadian and Aramaic Magic - Reuven Kiperwasser/Dan D. Y. Shapira: Encounters between Iranian Myth and Rabbinic Mythmakers in the Babylonian Talmud
Scholasticism and Exegesis Irving Finkel: Remarks on Cuneiform Scholarship and the Babylonian Talmud - Eckart Frahm: Traditionalism and Intellectual Innovation in a Cosmopolitan World: Reflections on Babylonian Text Commentaries from the Achaemenid Period - Uri Gabbay: Actual Sense and Scriptural Intention: Literal Meaning and Its Terminology in Akkadian and Hebrew Commentaries - Prods Oktor Skjærvø: Abar Rōdestān ī Babēl: The Zoroastrian Tradition—the dēn—in Sasanian and Early Islamic Times - Shai Secunda: Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Hermeneutics: Background and Prospects - Yishai Kiel: Shaking Impurity: Scriptural Exegesis and Legal Innovation in the Babylonian Talmud and Pahlavi Literature
- Edited by Uri Gabbay
- Edited by Shai Secunda
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